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My drug dealer was the doctor (Macklemore) I have been in Inspire Addiction Recovery’s inpatient treatment program for the past month. Here is my story. It is long. But there is (currently) a happy ending. Love you all! -Steve My Addiction Story When I was 12 a dog bit a hole the size of a quarter in my face. When…

This last week has been eventful. On Monday I went back to work after an exhausting weekend – I had climbed to Emerald Lake on mount Timpanogos and not fully recovered. I wasn’t sore, just very very tired. And on top of all this, It felt like the stitches replaced on Friday had failed again. So I called the oral…

Timpanogos Hike Report (or saved by my Water Filter) I woke up 5 minutes before my 5:00 AM alarm on Saturday morning so I took that as a sign that I was supposed to hike Timp with the Hansen family annual Timp trip https://www.facebook.com/events/655128821256064/675862545849358/ I showered, put on sunscreen, and got my stuff together I had packed the night before,…

There is an oldish adage “count your blessings” that seems to be very appropriate at the moment. I have been feeling down because of some slight difficulties in my life, but those problems pale in the large perspective of things. “Count your blessings – name them one by one” I am not going to do exactly that, but I did…

I have a young son who is a bit behind his age group developmentally. One of his favorite things is to listen to me sing. Very sweet right? Well after two hours or so of the same song, it gets a little old. So I recorded myself singing the song into the computer, and then whenever he begs me to…

This was a wonderful Christmas, we were able to get each of our children the thing(s) they wanted. And we were able to get the Christmas dinner dishes done without the usual whining and complaining. We played the dishes game. This is game is deceptively simple, and surprisingly fun. It works if there are at least 4 people participating, but…